durandal wrote on Aug 5, 2013, 22:21:I loved C&C series for their singleplayer campaigns, so imbalance of factions/units didn't bother me much, but I can understand the frustration of competitive players in last few installments. That is why the announcements of this new C&C being multiplayer-only concerns me greatly... These guys at EALA (now Bioware) cannot make a balanced game, nor even stable multiplayer experience for that matter.

EALA is no more, EA closed Danger Close after both MOH games bombed pretty much, which was the remnants of EALA. Victory Games, formerly Bioware Victory, is working on this iteration of C&C

Well, that was probably expected. Banning is extreme. But a sin tax makes sense, a la tobacco and alcohol. Caloric drinks over 16 oz are unhealthy and unnecessary.

Yeah, I'm surprised Bloomy didn't consider that. Tax the shit out of it. It won't stop everyone but it'll cut down a lot. I quit drinking pop years ago. I only use it highballs now.

The fact that he tried it anyways while more than likely knowing that sort of shit is unconstitutional isn't surprising. Politicians have made it very clear they will shit all over the document if they can get away with it.

Beamer wrote on Jul 30, 2013, 01:34:the world would be a better place if written death threats sent directly to a known individual were an arrest-worthy offense. Maybe not one that comes with jail time, but enough to have the police knock on your door and take you down for a few hours of questioning to determine if you were being serious or not.

I am not disagreeing or agreeing. But it also qued a Jaws line variation... "We're going to need a lot more policeman"

Or just put them down for 8 hours of community service.

Well, you need the policeman to put them down for the community service.By and large I don't think most, or many, or even more than 1 or 2, deserve actual jailtime, but if there were repercussions then the anonymous coward (not Anonymous) would rapidly disappear.

Why not just arrest and toss in jail anyone who doesn't agree with you on anything? Because it's a slippery slope when we start censoring free speech based on people's feelings.

According to the FBI death threats on social media are not protected by free speech. Then there's cyberbullying. Two kids in my state were arrested yesterday.

The ironic thing is death threats and abuse on Twitter is against their own rules. Stupidly they put the public in charge of reporting violations and it is often used to censor innocent people.

So we're going to run around throwing high schoolers in jail for basically being high schoolers. Rather than using common sense on a case by case basis.

It may be just perceived death threats today be they serious or not, tomorrow it will be if you're too conservative minded for example, off to the train to Auschwitz for you.

Social justice, especially of the tumblr, reddit/<insert social network site here> is the worse kind imo.

You're being a tad melodramatic, don't you think? It really started getting out of hand immediately after the Columbine High massacre. In recent years and state budget cuts most of that was reversed. Going after cyberbullying is even more costly. You are worrying about nothing.

But it is funny you bring up conservative minded people on social media. They are routinely targeted on Twitter by large groups of leftists falsely reporting them as spam. Many well known conservative bloggers are being censored. Not surprisingly it never happens to the other side. Spend a few minutes googling and you will be amazed at how corrupt and hypocritical twitter and facebook have become. My advice is don't use them at all. Bullshit isn't sustainable for long.

Which is why I used that as an example. And I've said this a few times already, for a party that preaches tolerance, liberals sure do go out of their way to censor or just outright slander anything that doesn't agree with their ideology. And they often do it in very deceitful ways.

Beamer wrote on Jul 30, 2013, 01:34:the world would be a better place if written death threats sent directly to a known individual were an arrest-worthy offense. Maybe not one that comes with jail time, but enough to have the police knock on your door and take you down for a few hours of questioning to determine if you were being serious or not.

I am not disagreeing or agreeing. But it also qued a Jaws line variation... "We're going to need a lot more policeman"

Or just put them down for 8 hours of community service.

Well, you need the policeman to put them down for the community service.By and large I don't think most, or many, or even more than 1 or 2, deserve actual jailtime, but if there were repercussions then the anonymous coward (not Anonymous) would rapidly disappear.

Why not just arrest and toss in jail anyone who doesn't agree with you on anything? Because it's a slippery slope when we start censoring free speech based on people's feelings.

According to the FBI death threats on social media are not protected by free speech. Then there's cyberbullying. Two kids in my state were arrested yesterday.

The ironic thing is death threats and abuse on Twitter is against their own rules. Stupidly they put the public in charge of reporting violations and it is often used to censor innocent people.

So we're going to run around throwing high schoolers in jail for basically being high schoolers. Rather than using common sense on a case by case basis.

It may be just perceived death threats today be they serious or not, tomorrow it will be if you're too conservative minded for example, off to the train to Auschwitz for you.

Social justice, especially of the tumblr, reddit/<insert social network site here> is the worse kind imo.

Beamer wrote on Jul 30, 2013, 01:34:the world would be a better place if written death threats sent directly to a known individual were an arrest-worthy offense. Maybe not one that comes with jail time, but enough to have the police knock on your door and take you down for a few hours of questioning to determine if you were being serious or not.

I am not disagreeing or agreeing. But it also qued a Jaws line variation... "We're going to need a lot more policeman"

Or just put them down for 8 hours of community service.

Well, you need the policeman to put them down for the community service.By and large I don't think most, or many, or even more than 1 or 2, deserve actual jailtime, but if there were repercussions then the anonymous coward (not Anonymous) would rapidly disappear.

Why not just arrest and toss in jail anyone who doesn't agree with you on anything? Because it's a slippery slope when we start censoring free speech based on people's feelings.

To rephrase what I mentioned earlier, without naming names to avoid the butthurting. Fish brought this on himself by being a douche and obviously not being able to take that kind of attitude back. The idea that people are defending him for this, is the same as the social justice tumblr and reddit users that seem to always have one unimportant cause or another to cry and whine about. This is no different.

Until they run out of money making the same handful of yearly titles. Can't say I didn't see this coming from Kotick when Vivendi originally took a controlling stake in Activision.

I'm sure to Bobby now completely owning Blizzard is icing on the cake, I bet he wished he'd originally bought them all those years ago when he joked that the CEO of Davidson & Associates was crazy for purchasing Blizzard who were pretty much unknown at that point was crazy for doing so at the time.